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BENOÎT GAUTHIER, PRESIDENT

Mr. Benoît Gauthier has very strong experience in research, in academic, private and public settings. He has specialised in strategic and organisational research and intervention, in market research, in program evaluation, in applied social research and in policy analysis. Over the years, his involvement in more than 500 research and intervention assignments has allowed him to build a particular expertise in the measurement and management of client satisfaction, human resource management, economic development, health and social services, technology, immigration, housing, arts and culture, and management information systems. Concerning research methodologies, Mr. Gauthier has acquired an enviable reputation as an experienced quantitative and qualitative analyst and as a top project manager.

After his doctoral studies, Mr. Gauthier has succively held the positions of chief of research in a branch of the department of Justice Canada, senior evaluator at the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, evaluation manager then director of program evaluation at Communications Canada and senior vice-president and chief of operations at Ekos Research Associates. In early 1996, he founded Circum Network Inc.. Over the past five years, Mr. Gauthier has been more closely concerned with organisational management issues; this has allowed him to bridge concerns about measurement and management concerns. He has acquired the Certified Management Consultant professional certification. He is a member of the Quebec Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec.

He has taught research methodology, program evaluation and the decision-making process at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the École nationale d'administration publique, University of Ottawa and the Université du Québec à Hull. He is still involved in teaching at ÉNAP and Ottawa University. He is the main author and the editor of Recherche sociale : de la problématique à la collecte des données which has gone through five French editions so far (1984, 1992, 1997, 2003, 2008; Presses de l'Université du Québec) and one Portuguese edition (2003; Lusociência).

STUDIES AND CERTIFICATIONS

  • Credentialed Evaluator, Canadian Evaluation Society (2010)
  • Certified Management Research Professional, Professional Marketing Research Society (2004)
  • Certified Management Consultant, Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC; 1999; certified for the preparation of PSGGR conformity opinions in March 2001)
  • Masters (Public Administration), École nationale d'administration publique, Québec (1991)
  • Masters Diploma (Public Sector Management), École nationale d'administration publique, Québec (1987)
  • PhD, course work and comprehensive examinations (Political Science), Carleton University, Ontario (1984)
  • Masters (Political Science), Laval University, Québec (1979)
  • BA (Political Science), Laval University, Québec (1978)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

PAST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Executive Vice-President and Chief of Operations, Ekos Research Associates, 1989-1996
  • Director of Program Evaluation, Communications Canada, Ottawa, 1988-1989
  • Senior Program Evaluation Manager, Communications Canada, Ottawa, 1986-1988
  • Senior Program Evaluation Manager and Methodologist, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Ottawa, 1983-1986
  • Chief of Research, Canadian Unity Information Office, Ottawa, 1983

CONFERENCES SINCE 2000

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Recherche sociale : de la problématique à la collecte des données, Québec, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1984, second edition, 1992, third edition 1997, fourth edition 2003, fifth edition 2008, 767 pages
    (Recherche sociale was published in Portuguese in 2003 by Lusociência under the title Investigação Social)
  • PUNCH Documentation, user manual for the PUNCH software, Circum Network Inc., 1996-1999, 100 pages
  • Recherche sociale : cahier d'exercices, Québec, Télé-Université, Université du Québec, 1988, second edition 1993, 367 pages
  • Recherche sociale : corrigé des exercices, Québec, Télé-Université, Université du Québec, 1988, second edition 1993, 150 pages
  • SAS, manuel d'introduction, with Jean Crête, Ottawa, University of Ottawa Bookstore, 1983, 165 pages
  • Méta-évaluation en affaires sociales : analyse de cent cas d'évaluations de programmes, Québec, Conseil québécois de la recherche sociale, Social Affairs Department, 1983, 304 pages
  • Logement et politiques gouvernementales : le cas de Donnacona, Québec, Université Laval, Master's thesis published by the Laboratoire d'études politiques et administratives, 1979, 265 pages

Articles

  • "The lay of the land: evaluation practice in Canada in 2009" (et alii), Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, vol. 24, no. 1, spring 2009, pages 1-49
  • "Evaluation practice in Canada: results of a national survey", Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, vol. 21, no. 3, special issue 2006, pages 1-42, with Shelley Borys, Natalie Kishchuk and Simon Roy.
  • "Enquête sur les pratiques et les enjeux de l'évaluation au Canada", Bulletin de la Société québécoise d'évaluation de programme, volume 18, no. 2, December 2005, with Shelley Borys, Natalie Kishchuk et Simon Roy.
  • "Are all samples of telephone numbers created equal?", Vue, February 2005, pages 14-17.
  • "Electronic Collaboration Tools: Opening Up a New World of Possibilities for Evaluators", Evaluation Exchange, vol. 10, no. 3, fall 2004, page 21.
  • "The lay of the land: evaluation practice in Canada today" (et alii), Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring 2004, pages 143-178.
  • "Le concours de simulation : le point de vue d'un juge", Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring 2003, pages 119-126.
  • "Performance tools — Web data collection", Measuring Up, vol. 1, no. 4, October 2002, pages 19-20. (http://performanceresources.97.ca/Measuring%20Up/Volume_1_4/volume_1_4.html)
  • François-Pierre Gingras and Benoît Gauthier, "L'avenir de la droite fédérale en Ontario passe-t-elle par la fusion du Parti réformiste et du Parti progressiste-conservateur ?", http://circum.com/index.cgi?en:doc:T005, 4 juin 1997.
  • "La question du chômage et le caractère dinstinctif de l'électorat québécois au scrutin fédéral de 1993 (with François-Pierre Gingras and Frank Graves), Revue québécoise de science politique, no. 27, spring 1996, pp. 51-122 (Abstract)
  • "Lecture et société", Documentation et bibliothèques, January 1994
  • "L'avenir de l'évaluation au Québec et la place des conseillers privés et universitaires", L'avenir de l'évaluation au Québec, proceedings from the November 18, 1991, conference organised by the Société québécoise d'évaluation de programmes and the École nationale d'administration publique, 1992, pp. 55-63
  • "Évaluation des programmes de sciences et de technologie dans une perspective ministérielle", L'évaluation de programmes : Bulletin d'actualités, November 1989, pp. 5-6
  • "Client Satisfaction and Program Evaluation", Social Indicators Research, vol. 19, no. 2, 1987, pp. 229-254
  • "La satisfaction de la clientèle en évaluation de programmes", Newsletter: Canadian Evaluation Society, vol. 5, no. 4, winter 1986, pp. 10-13
  • "La satisfaction des clients en évaluation de programmes", L'évaluation de programmes : Bulletin d'actualités, Bureau du Contrôleur général du Canada, April 1986, pp. 2-3
  • "Méta-évaluation en affaires sociales", Conseil québécois de la recherche sociale, Actes du Colloque sur la recherche sociale, Québec, Québec Government, 1984, pp. 67-78
  • "Le mode de scrutin : une fausse justification", Le Devoir, August 25, 1982, p. 11
  • "Les femmes à l'Assemblée nationale", Le Devoir, July 16, 1982, p. 13
  • "Les sondages ne mentent pas, c'est leur traitement journalistique qui serait déficient", Le Devoir, April 13, 1982, p. 17

BOOK REVIEWS

Twenty book reviews in Politique and in the Canadian Political Science Review